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~ For this year's 61st birthday on 4 November, no celebration planned due to it being a regular workday...several very thoughtful friends kindly arranged for gifts...Rev. & Mrs. Jon Stasney in Midland, Texas sent an L.L. Bean flannel shirt...my Peking University TA, XUE Haoran, kindly gave me a birthday calendar puzzle...Peking University Health Science Center medical research student XU Ni hand-made a bowl, with a nebula design...it glows in darkness, as shown in one of the images...two especially precious books from HUANG Xin, QIU Wenhui and ZHANG Yan...a framed portrait of CHEN Jian and I in a safari van when entering Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya...a box of See's Chocolates from Mr. & Mrs. CHEN Jian...two vintage Parker 51 fountain pens, restored by Mike McConnell, a gift to myself, Mint Imperials from Jeremy & Dasha Garlick